Nguyen Xuan Oanh

Nguyen Xuan Oanh (14 July 1921-29 August 2003) was Prime Minister of South Vietnam in 1964 (interrupting Nguyen Khanh's terms) and in 1965 (succeeding Tran Van Huong and preceding Phan Huy Quat).

Biography
Nguyen Xuan Oanh was born in Phu Lang Thuong, French Indochina in 1921, and he worked as a Harvard economist before working for the International Monetary Fund. He later returned to South Vietnam in 1963 to serve as an economic advisor, and he served as Prime Minister in 1964 and 1965. Greatly respected by both nationalists and communists, he served as an economic advisor to the Communist Party of Vietnam during its Doi Moi reforms in the late 1980s, and he served on the central committee of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front. He died in 2003 at the age of 82.